Lately I’ve been paying more and more attention to the ads
on the sides of webpages. The ones that are based on collected data from browsing
history and are supposed to be tailored specifically, perfectly, to me.
Yeah… not so much. Just because I’m Alaskan doesn’t mean I’m
automatically addicted to fishing, and is it really that great an idea to
bombard me with pictures of the clothes I just looked at. I’ve already seen
them for Pete’s sake! Why on earth would I want spend even more time looking at
something I’m not going to buy?
And don’t even start me on the shoe adds they show me! Just
because I’m a woman doesn’t mean I’m addicted to shoe shopping, thank you very
much, and even if I were stripper shoes wouldn’t be my first choice!
Combat boots? Sure.
Stripper heels? Only if I got their tips too.
For such an advertising juggernaut I’m incredibly
underwhelmed.
However, that’s not the best part. No, that’s the part where
I’m a 31-39 year old single plus sized woman.
In reality, I’m a 25 year old woman with a kicking body and
a committed relationship.
At least they got 1 out of 5 right? I am a woman.
Congratulations!!! There are people in the world today who can look right at
me, and thanks to my haircut and lack of giant breasts miss that fact entirely.
“Hi, boys.” Yeah no.
Anyway, I’m not sure if I should be excited to have fooled
the advertising system that has been known to predict pregnancy better than the
test, or if I should be concerned that my lifestyle choices are so strange compared
to my demographic’s average that I’m not even considered a part of that
demographic.
So is there anyone else out there who’s managed to fry the
system? Or who has as of now decided to give it a shot just to see if they can?
- Aaron
4 comments:
I love this post! I totally get what you mean. Lately I've been bombarded by advertisements asking me if I like Asian women. I don't how they came to that conclusion. At all.
Exactly, I've been looking back over my internet history trying to figure out what I've been doing that screams either "overweight" or "30-39." Maybe it's all the rich chocolaty recipes I look at? That's my working theory. -Aaron
Yup, I get some pretty weird stuff too... but that's probably because of my 'Google history' for story related information.
...oddly enough, travel advertisements for Alaska keep popping up ;) guess that's what happens when you search videos on skinning polar bears and Inuit weapons...
sometimes they get it right because of my browsing history. Which totally freaks me out. i hate that advertisers have that much personal information on me.
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